
          did not give us his promised visit The
affairs of the Grand college prevented
his leaving the city - The affairs of
that Institution are just now in a 
very disagreeable condition - potitical
influences are at work - great dissatisfaction 
exists relative to the expenditures
of the money - The school according
to the opinion of the Phila [Philadelphia] Lawyers
cannot go into operation until the
main building is complete and this
according to the opinion of the architect
cannot be effected even with the
expenditure of from 3 to 4 hundred
thousand dollars annually in less than
five or six years - A resolution
was proposed by one branch of the 
legislature of the city to withhold
the salary of the President until such
time as the Institution should go into

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Her sickness was once a cause of my not going to New York_ indeed I was to have
escorted her to the city on her way to Albany the week she was taken sick

        